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Bonus audio: the brewery
12:15 PM.Go on an audio tour of the Mussel Inn brewery. Audio
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Spectrum for 15 January 2012
12:15 PM.Amelia Nurse visits Mussel Inn in Golden Bay to hear some wicked banjo players and find out how the inn has been so successful for so long. Audio
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Spectrum for 8 January 2012
12:10 PM.On Spectrum this week, Justin Gregory goes behind bars to meet a former bookstore owner who has spent years of her life helping prisoners improve their reading skills and change their lives. Audio
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Spectrum for 1 January 2012
12:20 PM.On Spectrum this week, Amelia Nurse visits Judy and Steve Richards who have run the Jester House Cafe in the hamlet of Tasman for the past 20 years. Audio
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Spectrum for 25 December 2011
12:10 PM.Justin Gregory goes behind bars to meet a former bookstore owner who has spent years of her life helping prisoners improve their reading skills and change their lives. Audio
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Spectrum for 18 December 2011
12:10 PM.Spectrum discovers what happened to the blind man who busked in front of the Cathedral until the day of the February earthquake. Audio
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Spectrum for 25 December 2011
12:11 PM.Spectrum offers a few tasty treats for Christmas lunch. Fancy some ginger gems, hot cheese scones, or colonial goose, cooked on a coal range stove? Justin Gregory is on hand when the old Shacklock… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 11 December 2011
12:10 PM.The commanding landmark of Rangitoto, the largest and youngest of the islands in Auckland's volcanic field, has long attracted day-trippers keen to make the short, sharp hike to its summit. But for a… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 4 December 2011
12:10 PM.Meg Daly says the sudden death of Green Party co-leader Rod Donald in 2005 was a wakeup call for her. So after years working as an occupational therapist, Irish born Meg now spends her days baking… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 27 November 2011
12:10 PM.Between demolition and rebuild stands a time of opportunity in the earthquake ravaged city of Christchurch. Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler are temporary pockets of enterprise which began as early… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 20 November 2011
12:07 PM.Writer, film maker and sculptor Frankie Wood is 92 years-old and has been an entertainer since childhood. She still performs with her life-sized puppets, mouth organ or accordion and is always ready… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 13 November 2011
12:10 PM.A group of Wellington College students and a teacher tell Spectrum's Jack Perkins about their visit to Tanzania's hinterland to see how the money raised by the college for a World Vision project is… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 6 November 2011
12:10 PM.Anthony Lealand has drawn on the experience of guys by the bonfire with a handful of sparklers, to fully orchestrated whizz-bang events, to create his fireworks company which is now a world leader in… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 30 October 2011
12:15 PM.It used to be little more than a toilet stop on the way to other destinations but now Shannon's chic shops are attracting women from the nearby and much larger towns of Palmerston North, Levin and… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 23 October 2011
12:10 PM.You may never have heard of the Albertlanders. But their legacy is enshrined in the small North Auckland town of Wellsford. Next Easter it'll be 150 years since the first cohort of members of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 16 October 2011
12:10 PM.On the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the first veterinary school in Lyon, France, four South Island vets recall their colourful careers from breeding goldfish, to saving elephants. Audio
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Spectrum for 9 October 2011
12:10 PM.With the aim of getting families involved, Wellington's Thorndon Farmers' Market runs its first ever Kids' Market. As well as fun for the whole family, the young stall-holders learn the ins and outs… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 2 October 2011
12:10 PM.You may never have heard of Brian Lawton, but you have probably seen the creepy crawlies he breeds. His giant spiders, cockroaches, worms and wetas have featured graphically in such films as Lord of… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 25 September 2011
12:15 PM.International Red Cross Manager Bob McKerrow talks with Deborah Nation about his long career spent helping others. Bob is no stranger to disaster but it's a new experience to see the sufferings of his… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 18 September 2011
12:10 PM.In the 1940s, a casual after-school job drew Ian Young into watchmaking. He's now 80 years old and is still repairing everything from grandfather clocks to the tiniest timepieces. Ian introduces… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 11 September 2011
12:10 PM.The Claystore is a community workshop tucked away on a light industrial site in Devonport that used to be part of the Auckland Gas and Brickworks. The workshop is manned by a small group of volunteers… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 4 September 2011
12:10 PM.A year after the first earthquake on 4 September 2010, aftershocks continue to be felt in Canterbury, and they're not always seismic ones. When buildings collapse or are cordoned off, or even just… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 28 August 2011
12:10 PM.United States marines invaded Wellington's Kapiti coast in June 1942. Several camps housed about 20,000 marines who were undergoing training for assaults against the Japanese in the Pacific… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 21 August 2011
12:10 PM.Early evening, Tawharanui Regional Park. This mainland sanctuary is now home to threatened native fauna, plus on this evening, a dozen chatty kids from nearby Matakana Primary School. The group's… Read more Audio
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Spectrum for 14 August 2011
12:10 PM.At the Marine Education Centre in Honolulu, Deborah Nation joins a fleet of Pacific voyaging canoes and meets the Maori navigators and crew who began their journey in Aotearoa. Audio